Re: [IxDA Discuss] Usability List on Twitter

2010-01-31 Thread Elizabeth Buie
I've moved my list to the main part of my site: http://www.luminanze.com/resources/uxtweeps.html -- Elizabeth Buie Luminanze Consulting, LLC tel: +1.301.943.4168 www.luminanze.com @ebuie Welcome to the Interaction Design

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Usability List on Twitter

2010-01-26 Thread Elizabeth Buie
or two after I get your request, because I'm pretty swamped right now and I wait until I have several new people to add. Elizabeth On Jan 26, 2010, at 22:38, Will Evans wkeva...@gmail.com wrote: Elizabeth Buie put together a great UX Tweeps list for those interested :-) http

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Usability List on Twitter

2010-01-26 Thread Elizabeth Buie
P.S. There are over 600 people on my list. (I don't follow them all. :-) Elizabeth Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ... disc...@ixda.org Unsubscribe

[IxDA Discuss] Unused IxD10 registration for sale

2010-01-22 Thread Elizabeth Buie
I have an IxD10 registration I can't use. (I'll be going, but my friend has had something come up and won't be able to join me.) Would anyone like to take it off my hands? Early registration price. Elizabeth Welcome to the

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Unused IxD10 registration for sale

2010-01-22 Thread Elizabeth Buie
And we have a winner! Livia Labate's colleague gets my unused registration. Thanks for the quick reply, Livia. You've saved us both some money. :) Elizabeth -- Elizabeth Buie Luminanze Consulting, LLC www.luminanze.com @ebuie

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Article on Number of Usability Test Participants

2009-10-03 Thread Elizabeth Buie
. Tell me you're being facetious. Please. Elizabeth -- Elizabeth Buie Luminanze Consulting, LLC www.luminanze.com @ebuie Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ... disc...@ixda.org Unsubscribe

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Unusable things

2009-10-03 Thread Elizabeth Buie
to push in a hurry without having to take time to decipher symbols. http://www.luminanze.com/blog/2009/03/hold-elevator.html Elizabeth -- Elizabeth Buie Luminanze Consulting, LLC www.luminanze.com @ebuie Welcome to the Interaction Design

[IxDA Discuss] CFP: CHI2010 Workshop on Researcher-Practitioner Interaction

2009-10-02 Thread Elizabeth Buie
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[IxDA Discuss] CFP: CHI2010 Workshop on Researcher-Practitioner Interaction

2009-09-27 Thread Elizabeth Buie
NOT post my email address on the web unless you disguise it the way the workshop page does. Thanks! http://bit.ly/CFP-CHI2010-RPI See you at CHI2010! Elizabeth -- Elizabeth Buie Luminanze Consulting, LLC www.luminanze.com @ebuie

Re: [IxDA Discuss] UX'ers on Twitter?

2009-09-27 Thread Elizabeth Buie
:16 PM -0400 9/27/09, Jonathan S. Knoll wrote: An admirable list like this has already been created by Elizabeth Buie: http://www.luminanze.com/blog/2009/07/user-experience-tweeps.html ~ yoni Jonathan S. Knoll email: jonat...@infinityplusone.com web: http://infinityplusone.com/ linkedin: http

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Eye-Tracker software/hardware recommendations

2009-08-27 Thread Elizabeth Buie
labels; and the reason is that it depends on the purpose of the form and the lengths of the labels.) Elizabeth -- Elizabeth Buie Luminanze Consulting, LLC tel: +1.301.943.4168 www.luminanze.com @ebuie Welcome to the Interaction

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Eye-Tracker software/hardware recommendations

2009-08-21 Thread Elizabeth Buie
of the attention required by the communication, not an issue of the means used. Elizabeth -- Elizabeth Buie Luminanze Consulting, LLC tel: +1.301.943.4168 www.luminanze.com @ebuie Welcome to the Interaction Design Association

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Eye-Tracker software/hardware recommendations

2009-08-21 Thread Elizabeth Buie
At 10:04 AM -0400 8/21/09, Jared Spool wrote: Apparently, I've hit a nerve. :) You stole my line. :-) Elizabeth -- Elizabeth Buie Luminanze Consulting, LLC tel: +1.301.943.4168 www.luminanze.com @ebuie Welcome to the Interaction

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Eye-Tracker software/hardware recommendations

2009-08-20 Thread Elizabeth Buie
you're talking about Jared, so I'm not really arguing against you. I'm just pointing out that there are some cases where it *is* helpful -- even necessary -- to know where people are looking, and for how long. Or, more specifically, where they are NOT looking. Elizabeth -- Elizabeth Buie

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Eye-Tracker software/hardware recommendations

2009-08-20 Thread Elizabeth Buie
regarding regular usability testing, and I'm asking for clarification on what you're saying here regarding studies of texting while driving. Thanks for anything you can add to clear up this point for me. Elizabeth -- Elizabeth Buie Luminanze Consulting, LLC www.luminanze.com @ebuie

Re: [IxDA Discuss] UX/Usability folks on Twitter

2009-08-10 Thread Elizabeth Buie
I've uust updated the list of UX people on Twitter. If you're not on the list and you've asked to be, please let me know. http://bit.ly/UXTweeps Please send requests just to me, not to all of the IxDA list. Thanks. Elizabeth -- Elizabeth Buie Luminanze Consulting, LLC www.luminanze.com @ebuie

Re: [IxDA Discuss] UX/Usability folks on Twitter

2009-08-10 Thread Elizabeth Buie
Also, please make sure that your Twitter bio mentions UX or usability. Thanks! -- Elizabeth Buie Luminanze Consulting, LLC www.luminanze.com @ebuie Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Usability of Buttons versus Links for Navigation

2009-08-01 Thread Elizabeth Buie
a link. Elizabeth -- Elizabeth Buie Luminanze Consulting, LLC tel: +1.301.943.4168 web: www.luminanze.com twt: @ebuie Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ... disc...@ixda.org Unsubscribe

[IxDA Discuss] UX/Usability folks on Twitter

2009-07-31 Thread Elizabeth Buie
All, Today I started making a list of the UX/usability folks on Twitter. The list is here: http://bit.ly/UXTweeps If you're not on it and you'd like to be, or if you're on it and you'd like to be removed, please let me know. Or if you know someone I've missed. Elizabeth -- Elizabeth Buie

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Usability of Buttons versus Links for Navigation

2009-07-31 Thread Elizabeth Buie
At 4:00 PM -0300 7/31/09, Gino Rodrigues wrote: Users are rarely aware about beeing acting or navigating. I think that's at least partly because too many designs mix up the affordances, using one for the other. Elizabeth -- Elizabeth Buie Luminanze Consulting, LLC web: www.luminanze.com twt

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Usability of Buttons versus Links for Navigation

2009-07-30 Thread Elizabeth Buie
. Elizabeth -- Elizabeth Buie Luminanze Consulting, LLC tel: +1.301.943.4168 web: www.luminanze.com twt: @ebuie Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ... disc...@ixda.org Unsubscribe

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Usability of Buttons versus Links for Navigation

2009-07-30 Thread Elizabeth Buie
it doesn't persist, OR they may wish to save the transaction for later, or whatever. Here Return to X isn't going to answer their question and is therefore unclear and confusing. The second is what I was thinking the question was about. Thanks for expressing it so clearly! Elizabeth -- Elizabeth Buie

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Usability of Buttons versus Links for Navigation

2009-07-30 Thread Elizabeth Buie
am completely opposed to relying on the use of the Back button as a way to get around completing a form. We may not be able to prevent it, but we *must* use a means that does not require people to use it. Elizabeth -- Elizabeth Buie Luminanze Consulting, LLC web: www.luminanze.com twt: @ebuie

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Usability of Buttons versus Links for Navigation

2009-07-29 Thread Elizabeth Buie
somewhere else. The user expects to see things change on clicking a Cancel button. In this case, navigation is not specifically the user's intent, and a link is not the appropriate mechanism for it. Elizabeth -- Elizabeth Buie Luminanze Consulting, LLC web: www.luminanze.com twt: @ebuie

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Ungraceful degradation of HTML emails and conversion rates.

2009-05-10 Thread Elizabeth Buie
At 9:55 AM -0400 5/9/09, William Brall wrote: Focus on making HTML email more secure, rather than making it look good when people turn it, or part of it, off. Crack that egg, and no one will turn it off anymore. I will. Elizabeth -- Elizabeth Buie Luminanze Consulting, LLC +1.301.943.4168

Re: [IxDA Discuss] What music for interaction designers

2009-02-28 Thread Elizabeth Buie
. Elizabeth -- Elizabeth Buie Luminanze Consulting http://www.luminanze.com Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ... disc...@ixda.org Unsubscribe http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe

Re: [IxDA Discuss] List ordering: alphabetical vs. logical?

2009-02-05 Thread Elizabeth Buie
her head -- Elizabeth Buie Luminanze Consulting, LLC tel +1.301.943.4168 http://www.luminanze.com Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ... disc...@ixda.org Unsubscribe http

Re: [IxDA Discuss] List ordering: alphabetical vs. logical?

2009-02-04 Thread Elizabeth Buie
, but they are grouped together in most File menus (and rightly so!) because they are very closely related. Elizabeth -- Elizabeth Buie Luminanze Consulting, LLC tel +1.301.943.4168 (US) tel +39.347.394.7022 (Italia) fax +1.301.949.9694 (US only) www.luminanze.com

Re: [IxDA Discuss] List ordering: alphabetical vs. logical?

2009-02-04 Thread Elizabeth Buie
. It is also a means of ordering that people learn, in Western culture, from the day they begin to learn to read. As Chauncey says, it is the way to order when no other order makes sense. Mary Deaton -- Elizabeth Buie Luminanze Consulting, LLC tel +1.301.943.4168 (US) tel +39.347.394.7022 (Italia) fax

Re: [IxDA Discuss] List ordering: alphabetical vs. logical?

2009-02-04 Thread Elizabeth Buie
mean it's illogical to use it, of course, just that there is no logic on which it is based: It is arbitrary. Elizabeth -- Elizabeth Buie Luminanze Consulting, LLC tel +1.301.943.4168 (US) tel +39.347.394.7022 (Italia) fax +1.301.949.9694 (US only) www.luminanze.com

Re: [IxDA Discuss] List ordering: alphabetical vs. logical?

2009-02-04 Thread Elizabeth Buie
are looking for. That is why I said it was arbitrary, which I think avoids the random = unpredictable problem. Elizabeth -- Elizabeth Buie Luminanze Consulting, LLC tel +1.301.943.4168 (US) tel +39.347.394.7022 (Italia) fax +1.301.949.9694 (US only) www.luminanze.com

Re: [IxDA Discuss] List ordering: alphabetical vs. logical?

2009-02-04 Thread Elizabeth Buie
it predictable. Elizabeth -- Elizabeth Buie Luminanze Consulting, LLC tel +1.301.943.4168 (US) tel +39.347.394.7022 (Italia) fax +1.301.949.9694 (US only) www.luminanze.com Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Aren't we just a little important to democracy?

2009-01-26 Thread Elizabeth Buie
it's not as simple as what a form is supposed to do. Elizabeth -- Elizabeth Buie Luminanze Consulting, LLC tel +1.301.943.4168 (US) tel +39.347.394.7022 (Italia) fax +1.301.949.9694 (US only) www.luminanze.com Welcome

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Aren't we just a little important to democracy?

2009-01-26 Thread Elizabeth Buie
Todd writes:  BTW, coded properly, when you're inside a Text area, hitting the Enter key won't submit the form. Exactly. (That's where he was, unless I sorely misunderstood him.) Elizabeth -- Elizabeth Buie Luminanze Consulting, LLC tel +1.301.943.4168 (US) tel +39.347.394.7022 (Italia

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Hiding and Disabling Menu Items

2008-07-03 Thread Elizabeth Buie
to teach them. Does anyone remember the long-established principle that Error prevention is better than error recovery? (Chauncey, you can put your hand down; I know you do. :-) Elizabeth -- Elizabeth Buie Luminanze Consulting, LLC www.luminanze.com

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Hiding and Disabling Menu Items

2008-07-03 Thread Elizabeth Buie
messages is that if they are sufficient, a person may not have to call internal or external support or search a knowledge base for a problem so a good message can be cost-effective (though prevention is still better). Chauncey On Thu, Jul 3, 2008 at 7:26 AM, Elizabeth Buie [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dan

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Hiding and Disabling Menu Items

2008-07-03 Thread Elizabeth Buie
I wrote: My point is not that error messages are not necessary, but that they are not sufficient. And that they are not the best starting point. Elizabeth -- Elizabeth Buie Luminanze Consulting, LLC www.luminanze.com Welcome

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Hiding and Disabling Menu Items

2008-07-03 Thread Elizabeth Buie
Jared Stanley Milgram Spool writes: Yes, but nothing says Don't press that button better than a couple of electrodes emitting 10,000 volts. They won't make the mistake again, I tell you. Quite right! -- Elizabeth Buie Luminanze Consulting, LLC www.luminanze.com

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Terminology: import-export or upload-download

2008-03-19 Thread Elizabeth Buie
Leandro Alves writes: Well, I agree with Elizabeth, but I think that download/upload is best used when relative to storing data. Well, I didn't say anything that disagreed with that. :-) My main point was that it's not a matter of choosing between import/export and upload/download, because

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Terminology: import-export or upload-download

2008-03-19 Thread Elizabeth Buie
Katie Albers writes: On the whole I agree with Calvin, here...but what's wrong with using move? Because upload and download, import and export, usually copy the item, rather than moving it. Elizabeth Welcome to the Interaction

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Terminology: import-export or upload-download

2008-03-19 Thread Elizabeth Buie
duplicates an file) and move (which relocates a file). On Wed, Mar 19, 2008 at 2:29 PM, Elizabeth Buie [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Katie Albers writes: On the whole I agree with Calvin, here...but what's wrong with using move? Because upload and download, import and export, usually copy the item

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Terminology: import-export or upload-download

2008-03-18 Thread Elizabeth Buie
Mona Singh writes: Has anyone done any user studies on the use of terminology like import-export or upload-download. Is one of the options more natural for users? As I have always used them they mean different things, so both are appropriate in their contexts. Upload/Download refers to

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Most usable doesn't always mean best solution

2008-03-04 Thread Elizabeth Buie
Todd wrote: On Mar 3, 2008, at 5:26 PM, Elizabeth Buie wrote: No, the automatic would come out as the most learnable Well, this is one very key factor in determining usability. Yes, of course. But it does not constitute usability by its own self; there are other factors. Remember

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Most usable doesn't always mean best solution

2008-03-04 Thread Elizabeth Buie
Brandon Ward writes: I think everyone could agree that automatic is technically 'easier', Depends on by whom. It really *isn't* easier for me. Sorry if this isn't very coherent - but I think my point is in there somewhere. I'm not so sure. I drive a stick, never owned an automatic. I use

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Most usable doesn't always mean best solution

2008-03-04 Thread Elizabeth Buie
Todd writes: Elizabeth, there are a lot of people out in the field, especially marketing agencies, Well, there you have it. They're marketing folks. IMNERHO they aren't usability professionals; they're just calling themselves that. I include satisfaction in my definition of usability,

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Most usable doesn't always mean best solution

2008-03-03 Thread Elizabeth Buie
Robert Barlow-Busch writes: By far my favorite example of this maxim is automatic vs. standard transmissions in vehicles. Imagine doing a usability test of these two technologies: the automatic would win, hands-down. No, the automatic would come out as the most learnable. For those who are

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Interaction08 - missing piece of the conversation

2008-02-10 Thread Elizabeth Buie
with. Elizabeth Buie Luminanze Consulting http://www.luminanze.com *Come to IxDA Interaction08 | Savannah* February 8-10, 2008 in Savannah, GA, USA Register today: http://interaction08.ixda.org

[IxDA Discuss] Interview questions: Which by phone and which in person?

2007-12-31 Thread Elizabeth Buie
. What kinds of questions would you ask over the phone and what would you save for the f2f sessions? (Note: I am not yet asking about exercises, as they need to be conducted in person and my goal right now is to separate phone questions from f2f questions.) Elizabeth -- Elizabeth Buie Principal